Apparently the term "self care" has been around for hundreds of years; not touting the same meaning it holds today. (I'll leave you to that research; but basically self-care had a derogatory meaning) I started noticing the term on my insta feed in 2017 and right from jump I had a non-popular opinion: that what y’all think is self-care isn't really self-care!

There's Self-Care, and then there's Self-Maintenance. Most of what we see on Instagram is Self-Maintenance; incorrectly being labeled as Self-Care. Self-Care allows us to do life correctly.

It's important to know the difference and make time for both - because only one of the two actually perpetuates your growth. As a society, we need to realize that what's involved in self-care is more substantial than we initially regard it to be. 

Do you agree?

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